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Chris Rock is an audacious, sometimes caustic stand-up comic. His recently disbanded HBO show has been one of the genuine highlights of cable TV for the past few years.

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American readers can be a fickle lot, lauding authors who manage to churn out book after book after book in the same genre, all with interchangeable characters and villains.

When Director Henry Bean was casting the lead role in The Believer, he saw more than 150 hopefuls before he came across unknown actor Ryan Gosling, 19 at the time.

You may know Taye Diggs as Benny, the sexy landlord in Broadway's Rent. Oryou may recognize him as Winston, the sexy Jamaican islander in How Stella Got herGroove Back. Or you may remember him as Harper, the sexy novelist in The BestMan.

The Microsoft antitrust case may eventually go Microsoft's way, despite federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's decision last year that the software giant violated U.S. antitrust laws and should be broken into two parts.

U2 has swept its nominations at the 43rd Grammy Awards. The Irish band won three Grammys from the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences -- song of the year, record of the year and best rock performance by duo or group with vocal, all for its hit song Beautiful Day.

Renowned sitar player Ravi Shankar on has been named an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), a distinction recognizing his efforts to bring Indian music to Western audiences.

Veteran rockers The Eagles will reunite for a European tour this year and may release their first studio album in 20 years, drummer Don Henley told CNN's World Beat.

Critics roasted the film, moviegoers avoided it, and it likely won't be mentioned in the same breath as Traffic and Gladiator when the Oscar nominations are announced Tuesday morning.

Teenage actor Jamie Bell has won a major award for his role in the film Billy Elliot.

Television star Matthew Perry has entered a rehabilitation hospital for an undisclosed ailment, his publicist said Monday.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its annual Oscar nominations Tuesday morning, and when the smoke cleared,

Good Morning America was hoping for just one. Instead, it got five times that number.

The recent prison breaks in Texas and Alabama provided some real-life moments of drama for television viewers, but the subject has long been a source of creativity for Hollywood screenwriters. From I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang in the 1930s to 1993's The Fugitive, the figure of the escaped convict has been a movie staple.

Rap singer Sean Puffy Combs is trying to move the spotlight off of his court case and onto his more lucrative sideline as a fashion entrepreneur.

Dale Evans, who was Queen of the Cowgirls to King of the Cowboys husband Roy Rogers, a star who parlayed Western charm into a multifaceted career, died Wednesday. She was 88.

G.I. Joe better keep an eye out, because Rudy's ready for combat.

Oscar contender, Traffic, staring Michael Douglas and his new wife Catherine Zeta-Jones, was set to dominate the second day of the Berlin Film festival on Thursday.

A night of diverse musical entertainment is in store for the 43rd Grammy Awards on Wednesday.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Tuesday morning the nominations for this year's Oscars, the movie industry's most prestigious awards.

The film world is buzzing with excitement over legendary director Robert Altman's next project.

Jean Jacques Annaud has one of the most distinguished film careers in history -- having won both Cesar Awards and an Oscar -- in a film career that crosses from French to English.

Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas has been honoured during an emotional ceremony at the Berlin film festival.

Spice Girl Emma Bunton is still single after speculation that she had married her boyfriend in a secret St Valentine's Day ceremony.

The British Academy Film Awards has made a direct challenge to its U.S. rival, the Oscars, by shifting the date of its gala evening.

Best adapted screenplay: Traffic (Stephen Gaghan)

The Beatles have re-written the record books again by holding number one spot for their album 1 in 34 countries.

A film about the battle that marked the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany is scheduled to open Berlin's film festival.

Get ready. Hannibal's back.

Actor Bob Hoskins, one of the first big names to appear at the Berlin film festival, is happy to have cornered the market playing dictators.

James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 has become a special Valentine's Day gift for the wife of a businessman.

Around 250 lots of memorabilia from 21 James Bond movies are about to go under the hammer at an auction in London.

Ronan Keating of the Irish pop group Boyzone became a father for the second time when his wife, Yvonne, gave birth early on Sunday to a girl.

Buster Bloodvessel, the roly-poly frontman of eighties band Bad Manners, is seriously ill in hospital after collapsing on stage during a live concert in Italy.

Welsh band Manic Street Preachers have become one of the biggest Western acts to play in communist Cuba.

A film directed by a Frenchman and set in London has scooped the top prize at the Berlin Film festival.

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, who played a couple overcoming marital troubles in the film Eyes Wide Shut, announced Monday that they are separating.

Bernard Shaw's award-winning career as a journalist is not one that can be defined by a single moment. It was a series of defining moments, from the days when he bothered Walter Cronkite for advice to his coverage of some of the biggest stories of the past four decades.

Monsters from TV hit Walking With Dinosaurs are to make a comeback in a BBC1 drama which could also feature veteran star Peter Falk, best known as shabby detective Columbo.

Those pop heavyweights better be able to take a joke.

Film director Francis Ford Coppola is to unveil a new version of one of his biggest hits at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

A night of diverse musical entertainment is in store for the 43rd Grammy Awards on Wednesday.

Firefighters from the Los Angeles and Beverly Hills fire departments put out a blaze early Sunday at the reported home of actress Drew Barrymore.

Firefighters from the Los Angeles and Beverly Hills fire departments put out a blaze early Sunday at the reported home of actress Drew Barrymore.

Sir Elton John's long-running, multi-million pound High Court action about overseas touring costs has finally come to an end.

Eminem, the hugely popular rapper often denounced as homophobic, will perform a duet at the Grammy Awards this month with Elton John, a champion of many gay causes.

Controversial white rapper Eminem is hankering for a film role as a villain -- if he is able to find the time from his busy music schedule.

Eminem kicks off a sell-out tour of Britain this week with fans enraptured by the rap giant's edgy showmanship and critics aghast at his violent lyrics.